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No Forgiveness during the Holidays

QuickSilverXc·12/26/2015, 7:33:06 PM·1 votes·597 views

Yesterday was Christmas and I received a new copy of Star Wars Battlefront. Why am I posting this here? Well, as it turns out, after I installed the new Star Wars game, it prompted me for a video driver update. No big deal, I updated it and played it for a bit. I decided to switch gears and jump on League of Legends, which I play almost daily. I thought I'd play a short ARAM game before going to bed. The teams were set and the game was on...so I thought. Upon loading into the game, the LoL Launcher crashed, displaying a DirectX error. Puzzled, I tried to reload into the game three more times, receiving the error each time, before turning to the internet for further answers.

I looked at the clock. 10 minutes had passed and I knew my team would not be pleased with me missing. I attempted to uninstall my video driver and backdated it to a version two weeks prior to the most recent one. I seemed to have fixed everything and relaunched the game. Upon logging in, I was prompted with a screen I had never seen before. It informed me that leaving the game is a serious offense and I could be banned in the future if such behavior continued. Looks like my whole team had reported me. I felt bad, but there's nothing I could have done to get back to the game faster. And now I'm afraid to even try to launch the game again, for fear that I didn't entirely fix the problem and I would be reported again. I decided to test with a custom game against AI before rejoining a game with players.

It was very unfortunate that was unable to rejoin my team, but at the same time, I asked myself what would I do in that situation. Would I punish someone for leaving the game? Are ARAMs important enough to punish for? I have decided that in future games, I would be more considerate about what other players might be going through before reporting them. Hopefully other players will do the same.

TL;DR -- New video driver crashed, wouldn't allow me to join the game, got reported on Christmas for leaving a game and received a slap on the wrist from RIOT.

5 Comments

SmokedAlmonds12/26/2015, 7:41:29 PM4 votes

Punishments for leaving are for the rate at which you leave games not any individual games. The holiday's don't change anything about the situation. And you only got a warning. So I am not sure what there even is to forgive.

I never understood why some people think there should be more leniency because its a holiday.

AthenasVendetta12/26/2015, 7:38:23 PM2 votes

submit a support ticket.

Lapis12/26/2015, 7:41:54 PM2 votes

Maybe your team reported you, maybe they didn't. That message is part of an automated system. It detected you leaving, it gave you a warning, simple as that. It's not a punishment, don't worry. It's just a thing saying 'hey, maybe don't do this again'. And as it was a one time unusual circumstance, you have nothing to worry about :)

darkmatchwaldo12/26/2015, 9:42:49 PM2 votes

You didn't get reported i'm pretty sure that's the automatic leaverbuster message. If you leave the game it doesn't matter if you get reported or not you'll be getting punished. I don't understand these "i got punished on christmas" reports, of course you got punished. It wasn't your fault that you didn't connect but the automatic system doesn't know that and neither do your team mates. Also, you just got off with a warning. You didn't get a low priority queue or anything. Not a big deal man.

nerak2312/27/2015, 3:02:12 PM1 votes

If your afraid to try again here is the solution:

Simply, start a create a game with yourself and see if it works... If it doesn't LB won't penalize you and if it does work you should be able to play real games.

I had to do this a lot when I was having problems with lag and such, hope this helps you.